3- dimensional works in transit - concepts for the reduction of shock & impact

Paul Thek's "Sedan Chair"  from the collection of a german museum was negotiated on loan for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (WMAA) in New York. "Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective" is the first retrospective in the United States devoted to the legendary American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). 

"The "Sedan Chair" is a very fragile object, made of glass, plastic, painted wood and plaster, for example the sculpture of the double faced baby and the imitation of a piece of raw meat on the chair.

Due to the very fragile condition of the sculpture, its construction and the materials applied, it was deceided that this object requires a double-case-system plus an anti-shock-device between the inner and outer cases." 

Our packing and crating concept was based on the information of a multiple venue tour in the United States, starting in New York at the WMAA in October 2020, travelling on to the Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art in February 2011, and further on to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in summer 2011.

Not only had we to anticipate long distances between the venues, but also the entire scope of climatic changes during the tour.  Case design and packing schemes were crucial for the success of the objects safe journeys.

We suggested the use of multidirectional industrial shock absorbers.